1 Chronicles 9:26

for the four chief porters, who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

In Context

25And their brothers, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them;

27And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge [of it] was upon them, and to them pertained the opening of it morning by morning.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 31:5And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the sons of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field. And they brought in the tithe of all things abundantly.

Nehemiah 13:5had prepared for him a great chamber, where formerly they laid the meal-offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the s

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 9:15-35

Genealogies; the Employment of the Priests. ( b. c. 1400.) 14 And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari; 15 And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Micah, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph; 16 And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites. 17 And the porters were, Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and… Read the whole commentary →

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